Renata PoltArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
Aw shoot! I forgot to wear my new tight-fitting black Levi’s to the Levi’s show! But then, I was so surrounded by Levi’s history, paraphernalia, photographs, pants, and all things Levi’s that it didn’t really matter. ...
Maya Beiser, Wendy Whelan, Lucinda Childs, David Lang
David E. MorenoDanceSan Francisco,
“I remember the day…” On the surface, “THE DAY” is a multilayered performance with iconoclastic cellist Maya Beiser and retired ballerina turned dance experimentalist, Wendy Whelan. This collaborative project, done in two parts, is the inspiration ...
David E. MorenoTheaterSan Francisco,
When an artist has reached superstardom, it is difficult to take a new direction without being compared to who they were and what they once achieved. But their fame and name recognition will draw fans to their most recent ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterSan Francisco,
“Gloria,” a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist, starts off on an average day in the culture department of a dysfunctional New York City magazine, where employees spend more time bitching, gossiping, trading quips, and net surfing than they do working. ...
David E. MorenoDanceSan Francisco,
When the Paul Taylor Dance Company last appeared in San Francisco in 2017, it was just months before the dance world would lose one of its greatest choreographers—Paul Taylor. Soon, the dance maker whose innovative career set contemporary dance ...
SInger & SonDanceSan Francisco,
We are inclined to follow Johnny Eliasen anywhere. In his staging of this special delivery rendering of “Études,” our devotee sentiments are richly rewarded. Yes, there are moments that could have done with a preemptive spring cleaning, but overall, ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterSan Francisco,
Two-time Emmy Award-winning actor Tony Hale (Gary on “Veep,” Buster on “Arrested Development”) returned to the stage for the first time in 17 years to star in “Wakey, Wakey,” by Will Eno. And on opening night, Hale did himself ...
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
Christopher Wheeldon gives us a complex “Cinderella,” absent even a soupçon of “The Cinderella Complex” that feminist therapists pride themselves in vanquishing, but which others of their profession reluctantly accommodate to. Wheeldon sidelines the Charles Perrault version of the ...
SInger & SonDanceSan Francisco,
Two elements in the gala’s ceremonial intro nearly upstaged the nativist spit and polish of “Men’s Regiment from Stars and Stripes.” First was Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson’s paradoxical pitch to set aside our points of view in the service ...
David E. MorenoDanceSan Francisco,
“Astrology is not about astrology. It is about what is already happening. Astrology isn’t about us, but the way we are sewn into the weave of all we belong to. Right now, you are not dead, but you will ...
